Th

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

The symbol for the element thorium.

abbr. Bible Thessalonians

abbr. Thursday

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n. Symbol for thorium.

n. Country code for Thailand.

n. Abbreviation of Thursday.

proper n. Abbreviation of Thessalonians.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

In Old English, the article the, when the following word began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence, tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In chem.: a symbol for thallium: better Tl.

n. A common English digraph. See T.

n. An abbreviation of Thursday.

n. In chem., the symbol for thorium.

n. A suffix used in forming abstract nouns from adjectives or verbs, as in health from whole or heal, stealth from steal, filth from foul, tilth from till, growth from grow, truth, troth, from true or trow, drouth from dry, highth from high, etc.

n. A suffix (-eth after a vowel) used in forming ordinal from cardinal numerals, as in fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., twentieth, thirtieth, hundredth, thousandth, millionth, etc.

n. A suffix (in older form -eth) used in forming the third person singular (and in Middle English all persons plural) of the present indicative of verbs, as in singeth, hopeth, etc., or hath, doth, etc.

n. a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands

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Examples

KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. The reserve base for terrestrial Th is 1. 2M metric tons, but going to ores as dilute as KREEP basalts would expand the reserve base enormously.

If in the above situation of the tongue and teeth a sound be produced in the mouth, and the sonorous air be forced between them, the sonisibilant Th is formed, as in Thee; and should have an appropriated character as [*].